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If you can’t reach your favorite Linux developer by IM or e-mail today, it’s because they’re under a denial of service (DoS) attack. The top programmers are all at the Linux Plumbers conference, which is being hammered by an Internet attacker. Massive DDoS attacks like Dyn get the headlines, but as the top Linux programmers…

DDoS Defenses Emerging from Homeland Security Government, academic, and private-sector officials are collaborating on new ways to prevent and mitigate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, based on research years in the making but kicked into high gear by the massive takedown this month of domain name system provider Dyn. The largest attacks in summer 2015 were about 400…

[1:28pm Pacific / 4:28pm EST Update: According to Time Magazine Deputy Tech Editor Alex Fitzpatrick, there is now a third DDoS attack underway targeting Dyn – this from 7 minutes ago. According to Alex, Dyn have also confirmed that the Mirai Botnet is responsible “in part” for today’s DDoS attacks] [Updated again 1:07pm with mainstream…

You may have heard that Twitter, Paypal, Amazon and others came in for massive slow-downs today because someone was attacking Dyn.com which handled their DNS. DNS provider Dyn.com is currently under heavy DDoS attack which has affected many well known brands across the Internet including Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, Paypal and many others. This may…